#homonationalism

[sayruq]

[hummussexual]

Over the decades, numerous investigations have exposed how Israeli intelligence targets LGBTQ+ people. In 2013, Vice published an investigation detailing how the Palestinian Authority’s preventative security forces, under the direction of the IDF, had isolated gay Palestinians from their communities, kept files on them, and exploited them for intelligence. In 2015, news reports revealed that a surveillance technology company run by a former Unit 8200 official had helped provide Uganda with malware allegedly used against LGBTQ+ activists.

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[queen-mabs-revenge]

[timetravellingkitty]

zionist indians going all "they kill gay people in palestine" is so fucking funny you know people here go ballistic if you marry someone of a different CASTE right

[alurite-l]

Oh I'm gonna say something controversial and "problematic" real quick. White queers think being gay and/or trans is the ultimate form of oppression. And just like any other white person they must make themselves out to be the ultimate victim. "They would kill me in Palastine." "They would hatecrime me immediately in the middle east." "I could get beheaded by those people, that's why I don't support them." Are all things I've heard from white gays, mind you these people are living in AMERICA.

The same country who made it their mission to slander and eradicate the LGBTQ community, just a few months ago they were literally calling us groomers and p*dophiles and people were falling for that propaganda just like how yall are currently falling for the propaganda that all Palestinians are "terrorists" and are "bloodthirsty". And just how y'all are falling for that bullshit pinkwashing by israel.

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

[verilybitchie]

Wow Eurovision is so gay!

[describe-things]

Homonationalism will not save you. You cannot fucking threaten Queer people with being put in concentration camps unless we vote for your favorite genocidaire and call yourself an ally to anyone except white supremacy and genocide.

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Do not fucking vote for the man literally comitting genocide right now and then pretend you're doing it because you care about Queer people. You are literally just a white supremacist who only cares about yourself and other privileged white Americans.

If you vote for the man literally comitting genocide right fucking now, you are a fucking fascist pig, and no excuses will save you from this truth.

If you're willing to stand behind the US Govermnent's fascism when it's targeting people who aren't American, you are literally dooming any fucking hope of liberation for anyone. You cannot fucking support genocide and wash your hands of the consequences.

[gryficowa]

Boycott!

Fuck Harris and all the fucking pinkwashing/homonationalism!

You are not supporting LGBT+ people when you support pinkwashing! Stop lying about fighting for us when you do shit!

Now that I have your attention:

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Well, sorry, Zionism, fascism, conservatism, pinkwashing, homonationalism are not positive, remember this, blue liberal!

[jyndor]

considering palestine was super secular before israeli occupation, I don't need to hear from defenders of israel about how palestinians are so queerphobic. yes, settler-colonialism radicalized a lot of people. no where is safe for queer people tbh - including israel and the us. some places are more dangerous, but given the absolute war on trans people here in the us, I don't think we have any room to criticize ANYONE else.

queer liberation everywhere. and that includes queer palestinians. and so I will never accept bombing palestinians for queer rights.

stop using us as rainbow fucking human shields for your racist, orientalist garbage.

[vergess]

hello do you happen to have an explanation/definition of what pinkwashing is? don't trust googlie with a term so new and it does not line up with my understanding of the terms it's made up of (-washing = covering or changing the original or true depiction, pink- = I only know this term in politics from pink-collar and I am 99% certain it does not mean the same thing here)

Oh, yeah, you're absolutely correct about it not being a pink-collar thing.

For my followers, pink-collar refers to paid work outside the home that is traditionally held by women. The "pink" refers to women, femininity, etc. Just girly things, if you will.

In pink-washing, however, the pink refers to pink triangles, a prominent symbol of queer survival after pink triangles were used to mark sexual deviants (that is, gay men and trans women).

Pink-washing is the use of "we have queer rights, unlike those barbaric savages" to justify state violence.

Right now, the term is mostly coming up in discussions of Israel. In that specific context, it refers to the fact that Israel is far and away the most progressive and well-protected place for queer people of all sorts in the middle east. Which the Israeli government often likes to point to as proof that their brutal ethnic cleansing is a "necessary force" to protect queer lives from Islamist extremism.

It's a sort of, "look, I know what I'm doing is bad, but what they're doing is way worse: look at how badly they treat their queers. Obviously I must be violent to help civilize the animals, for the sake of their queers," often while actively killing queer civilians for being for the wrong race.

Unfortunately, pink-washing is itself strong evidence that a state devalues her queer citizens, thinking of them not as vulnerable people to be protected (as the state will insist is the case), but rather as tokens to be trotted out as proof of the state's "goodness." And should any queer person defy the role of "good little token," they are inevitably and severely punished. As they say (they being in this case an Israeli sociologist whose name escapes me entirely), "A trans woman in uniform will be given medical care, but a trans woman who refuses military service will go to a men's prison."

Pink-washing is also extremely, EXTREMELY common in the U.S. though this doesn't get as much air time lately as Israeli pink-washing. But, the U.S. very regularly uses pink-washing around gay (not so much trans) rights to justify both imperial and domestic violence. Even at the per-state level, it is extremely common for people in "progressive" states to say absurd shit like, "well we treat our gays with respect, unlike Alabama!" to thought-stop themselves from noticing how miserable their lives are as a direct consequence of state action (or even state inaction to stop violence, as is often the case with capitalism and policing problems).

There's also a significant problem in Canada with their pretty solid record on queer rights being used as a counter-argument to their mistreatment of indigenous peoples. This too is pink-washing.

Pink-washing also devalues to lives and specifically the queerness of the people being targeted for violence. You know. By killing them and stuff. But also by denying that they deserve the very right to life and safety that is supposedly the mission statement.

If the entire point of pink-washed violence really was queer liberation, they would suck at that because they keep killing all the queer people they don't fucking like.

[heavenlyachivement009]

I’m very sick of white lgbts saying they can’t support what’s happening in Palestine because they are all “homophobic” despite them living in countries like America where they have massive anti trans laws and try n paint all gay people as pedophiles and groomers. The double standard is crazy.

[hummussexual]

Homonationalism is "the instrumentalization of LGBTI rights as a tool of imperial domination." (source)

[minu-moni]

And yet another great video about how Zionists use Queer liberation as a tool to try to convince queer people that colonialism is good while being homophobic and racist themselves recommended to me today! Thanks YouTube!

Spending my pride month not supporting genocide ♥️

[spookyabuki]

So while it is crucial to challenge the Israeli state, it must be done in a manner that acknowledges the range of complicit actors. Historically speaking, settler colonialism has a long history of articulating its violence through the protection of serviceable figures such as women and children, and now the homosexual. Pinkwashing is only one more justification for imperial/racial/national violence within this long tradition of intimate rhetorics around "victim" populations. Further, Islamophobia has proliferated since the beginning of the "war on terror," but it also predates 9/11 in various forms (see, for example, Edward Said's periodization of Islamophobia as heralded during the end of the cold war). Pinkwashing works in part by tapping into the discursive and structural circuits produced by U.S. and European crusades against the spectral threat of "radical Islam" or "Islamo-fascism."

—Jasbir Puar, from "Rethinking Homonationalism," in the International Journal of Middle East Studies

[alurite-l]

This video explains what it’s like being queer in Palestine which I think is very important because there’s so much misinformation going around about how all Palestinians are homophobic. I actually find it really interesting that the people who are pushing that narrative are usually either white people or people who live in places like America or the UK where there are so many ongoing anti-LGBTQ laws. There is a huge double standard when a predominantly white country is homophobic vs when a predominantly brown country is homophobic.